Abraham Lincoln - 397 words
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was born Sunday,
February 12, 1809, in a log cabin near
Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was the son of Thomas
and Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and he was named for his
paternal grandfather. Thomas Lincoln was a
carpenter and a farmer. Both of Abraham's parents
were members of a baptist congregation which had
seperated from an another church due to opposition
of slavery. Lincoln was a pretty average his whole
life, despite his giantism. When he was older his
opposition in slavery led him to run for
president. In the 1860 Republican Presidential
nomination Lincoln won, beating Hannibal Hamlin.
On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th
president, defeating Douglas, Joh ...
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Abraham Lincoln - 1,117 words
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln, the 16th
president of the United States, guided his country
through the most devastating experience in its
national history--the Civil War. He is considered
by many historians to have been the greatest
American president. Early Life Lincoln was born on
Feb. 12, 1809, in a log cabin in Hardin (now
Larue) County, Ky. Indians had killed his
grandfather, Lincoln wrote, "when he was laboring
to open a farm in the forest" in 1786; this
tragedy left his father, Thomas Lincoln, "a
wandering laboring boy" who "grew up, litterally
[sic] without education." Thomas, nevertheless,
became a skilled carpenter and purchased three
farms in Kentucky before the Lincolns left th ...
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